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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 7515798" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>No, just no.</p><p>If a landing is attempted it would be far away in the middle of nowhere. Probably in a desert as to avoid any damage and to stay of the radar of the natives, especially as after a 6 month trip and a close sun flyby the crew would not even be able to function normally groundside.</p><p></p><p>But I don't think that will even happen. As soon as it is discovered that there is life down there, especially when they see that it resembles human life all plans of a landing, even a unmanned one will come to a stop as the UN will debate the ethics of landing on a populated planet which always carries the risks of polluting the planet and repeating the mass depopulation of America by pox (assuming people will even consider the possibility that the 'humans' of this planet are somehow genetically similar to us. Just because they look like us it doesn't mean they are).</p><p>And without groundside probes there can be no manned landing as they have to gather vital information about what you need to bring.</p><p>So for the near future the only thing which will happen is to place observation sattelites around the planet and maybe a relay sattelite around the sun if required while politicans debate and scientists try to figure out where the planet came from and how can it be that life there resembles our fantasy novels while the churches will go nuts. All that assuming that this information will even be made public. The list of entities able to discover this planet is rather small.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 7515798, member: 2518"] No, just no. If a landing is attempted it would be far away in the middle of nowhere. Probably in a desert as to avoid any damage and to stay of the radar of the natives, especially as after a 6 month trip and a close sun flyby the crew would not even be able to function normally groundside. But I don't think that will even happen. As soon as it is discovered that there is life down there, especially when they see that it resembles human life all plans of a landing, even a unmanned one will come to a stop as the UN will debate the ethics of landing on a populated planet which always carries the risks of polluting the planet and repeating the mass depopulation of America by pox (assuming people will even consider the possibility that the 'humans' of this planet are somehow genetically similar to us. Just because they look like us it doesn't mean they are). And without groundside probes there can be no manned landing as they have to gather vital information about what you need to bring. So for the near future the only thing which will happen is to place observation sattelites around the planet and maybe a relay sattelite around the sun if required while politicans debate and scientists try to figure out where the planet came from and how can it be that life there resembles our fantasy novels while the churches will go nuts. All that assuming that this information will even be made public. The list of entities able to discover this planet is rather small. [/QUOTE]
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